Marked for Jacob Labovitz
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Ahmed Hamoudi out for 70 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aswan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win for Aswan
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Aswan are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abdelrahman Magdy
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aswan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aswan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A goal and an assist for Mohammed Tahiri — 7.96
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.96 beside his name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nick DePuy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Ahmed Hamoudi out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aswan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match18 Nov 2026
Aswan bow out of the cup
Ismaily go through and Aswan go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Aswan
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aswan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Cyril Boukhit: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nick DePuy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Aswan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
The kick that got away from Mostafa Anani
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Ahmed Hamoudi out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aswan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Aswan
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Aswan are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Islam Gamal in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Jacob Labovitz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.81 on the card, and the Aswan support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ahmed Hamoudi breaks a bone — 99 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aswan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aswan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Aswan's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aswan has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aswan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Abdelrahman Magdy is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Aswan
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Aswan are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 72 days on the sidelines for Jacob Labovitz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Islam Gamal in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Aswan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nick DePuy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.